You will need to experiment with some type of dampening, a strip of black tape along the edges or something that will stop the vibrations should help.
If you have one drive you could get a front bay 5.25" drive holder that should help and the front has a spot for a 3.5" hard drive but it uses the rail head screws that slide into the channels and still vibrates but you can put one screw in the side you can see with the panel off and it will pull it tight to one side.
What is the make and model of the drive? I am using a WD740ADFD 74GB Raptor and a 320GB WD3200KS drive and they are silent in the blue plastic cages in my 410. I wonder if some drives are just barely too small and dont slide in "tight". It would have been nice if the pegs that go in the holes on the drives had a rubber ring around them.
I hate to tinker with this too much, with tape or the like, since the 410 is a brand new PC that I can still return. Dell level 2 support is supposedly trying to figure something out here and has promised me a call back tomorrow. I'll post if they have a good solution.
I doubt they will have anything since its vibration of the drive carrier and it sounds like you have taken it out and put it back in so its seated good.
Just curious, but did that Seagate come with the system? I am not asking relating the vibration issue, but just curious if Dell uses different hard drive brands. Both of the XPS 410 systems I purchased had the identical Western Digital drive even tho they were ordered a month apart.
They use several brands, seagate, western digital, samsung, maxtor, hitachi. It seems it depends on the factory its built at and the type of drive.
I luckily always get seagate and western digital and hitachi and sometimes maxtor in SCSI or SAS from Dell.
I felt the exact same way with my 410, I was really bummed that the PC itself was almost silent but the hard drive was horrible. Here's what I did to fix the problem; take the drive out of the PC case. Take the drive out of the blue rail. Cut four pieces of 1/2" thick soft squishy foam (I got this from some packing material I had) in a square about 1/2" on each side (so you are really making a cube). Then I inserted this foam between the hard drive and the blue rail at each of the four screw locations. I through the foam to secure the drive to the blue rail. Reinstalled the drive and presto! I can still hear the drive seeking, but it doesn't make that huge hollow echo noise. The nice thing about this mod is that you can remove it easily if you need to send the PC back. As it is though there should be no problem, the drive doesn't conduct heat into the plastic rail and I don't think the added stress of the foam could possibly effect the integrity of the drive housing.
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If you have one drive you could get a front bay 5.25" drive holder that should help and the front has a spot for a 3.5" hard drive but it uses the rail head screws that slide into the channels and still vibrates but you can put one screw in the side you can see with the panel off and it will pull it tight to one side.
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I luckily always get seagate and western digital and hitachi and sometimes maxtor in SCSI or SAS from Dell.
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I felt the exact same way with my 410, I was really bummed that the PC itself was almost silent but the hard drive was horrible. Here's what I did to fix the problem; take the drive out of the PC case. Take the drive out of the blue rail. Cut four pieces of 1/2" thick soft squishy foam (I got this from some packing material I had) in a square about 1/2" on each side (so you are really making a cube). Then I inserted this foam between the hard drive and the blue rail at each of the four screw locations. I through the foam to secure the drive to the blue rail. Reinstalled the drive and presto! I can still hear the drive seeking, but it doesn't make that huge hollow echo noise. The nice thing about this mod is that you can remove it easily if you need to send the PC back. As it is though there should be no problem, the drive doesn't conduct heat into the plastic rail and I don't think the added stress of the foam could possibly effect the integrity of the drive housing.
Hope this helps,
G